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You must think that something is happening upon you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand it will not let you fall.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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Rainer Maria Rilke
Age: 51 †
Born: 1875
Born: December 4
Died: 1926
Died: December 29
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René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke
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